I was asked why I despise tRump and later I found the answer; as an ordained clergy I have participated in many baptisms and vowed to reject evil in all its forms. So yes. I reject this evil.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be
I go and lie down where the wood duck rests in his beauty of the water…. Wendell Berry.

For people who hate nature.

North Woods. Daniel Mason.

Drink your tea-eeeee

It was hot today , wasn’t it. Even at the Reserve.

They are amazing. And their babies look like a cotton ball on toothpicks.

He died last fall, a warrior and a devoted companion. Admired and adored. I miss him.

Pray for those impacted by back-to-back typhoons in the Philippines last week.

In response, UMCOR has awarded solidarity grants to the Manila and Baguio episcopal areas of the UMC to support their relief efforts.

Support our international disaster response efforts: bit.ly/umcoridr

Who are the indigenous people ? Maybe they can help.

Wonder what the indigenous people called it?

The most beautiful dog I’ve known.

We’re on a carousel. …
Please god please don’t let me be normal.

They are native to where I live, and I like the idea of native sunflowers. And they have been important for the indigenous people.
But yes they can be aggressive. Like goldenrod.

Jerusalem artichokes, my dog posing

Wow! I did not know this.

This is so fun!! Too funny!! So real! And I love ‘here are some nice mushrooms’. I don’t know who else needs you but I do. Btw I think we own 10 chairs, not including the 2 easy chairs. And there are two of us. Last winter we donated 8 chairs. Why do we have so many?

YouTube video by General Board of Global Ministries Introducing Our New Sustainable Response Technology Library!

Introducing our new Sustainable Response Technology (SRT) Library! ☀️

As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season begins, these tools will equip United Methodist responders with renewable power and water sources when infrastructure access is cut due to disasters or other situations.

youtu.be/eBvuKEm0xxI

It’s become the environmental pollution agency. Evil.

May 21, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Heather Cox Richardson ✨
Podcast ✨ Letters from an American

"I have not been able to stop thinking today of the significance of the timing of the Republicans’ push for this bill, and what it says about how dramatically the U.S. has changed in the past 60 years."

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Duh…..

The abject cruelty is sickening

Nighttime Streetlights Are Stressing Out Urban Insects New findings suggest that streetlights are contributing to the decline of insect populations.

Every April, during the week of the new moon, people around the world turn off their lights to raise awareness about light pollution for International Dark Sky Week.

In 2021, an entomologist joined us to explain why nighttime lighting can be so harmful to insects.

Cruelty

What was the book? I just finished “my grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry.” Fredrik Backman never lets me down. I kept delaying reading because I did not want it to end.

That’s terrifying. March lockstep into authoritarian repression.